Rosa Parks and the bus to freedom
By: Beth Johnson
Edition: Simplified ed.
Series: Townsend Library; Townsend Library
Publisher: Townsend Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: West Berlin, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 67
ISBN-13: 9781591942887
Subjects: Race relations; African American women; Segregation in transportation; African Americans; Biography; History
Description: On a December day in 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. She was arrested, jailed, and tried for the crime of breaking the laws of segregation.